I had to get up last night to pee three times, I don't know where my body gets so much fluids from because I was also drenched in sweat the entire night and changed three soaking wet nighties. My husband is still in bed so it's still wet on my side which I'll tackle later. My hair is still wet two hours after I got up. I've a hairdresser appointment today, it's going to be short very soon!
Anyway you asked about tight feeling in the bladder, yes, I get a tightening as soon as I think "toilet" I'm almost wetting myself and have had to press under my pubic bone to stop anything coming out of my urethra until I get to the loo. I feel my bladder squeezing, tightening, it happens suddenly and I don't always make it to the loo. I was taking vagirux for a few months and then the pharmacy started giving me an unbranded one with an applicator for each tablet. As much as I hate the extra plastic waste, it works a lot better imo and I've been making it to the loo >95% of the time now.
It's not happening atm, but I can have the constant feeling that I didn't empty properly and I still need to go. I think the longer I take oestrogel and the new vaginal oestrogen, the less frequently that is happening. It lasts a few days at a time for me. The vaginal oestrogen takes a long time to work, but I think it's doing something at last for me.
I'm sure it's a menopause symptom, I didn't have it until my late 40s.